RT News - December 18 2023 (17:00 MSK)

IDF strikes hit a maternity ward in southern Gaza, killing one child and wounding several others, as the death toll in the region is approaching 19-thousand. We hear from witnesses. Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war against the people of Gaza. Saudi academic Mansour Almarzoqi believes Israel is deliberately blocking humanitarian aid supplies to the embattled enclave. An Israeli senior official says the IDF should destroy the entire Gaza Strip, to completely remove all residents and make it look like the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Egypt's incumbent president, el-Sisi, wins re-election, with authorities saying he received almost 90 percent of the vote.